NEOMatrix 1295 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 At least WOIO and WUAB aren't sharing the same logos (ie, "Hometeam 19" and "Hometeam 43"). Over/under on WOIO morphing from "Cleveland 19 News" to "CBS 19 News?" I say six months. I'm betting on two years, "Ohio 19 News", and a shift in focus to the Akron area. Seriously, if WOIO pulled a WEAR and focused its efforts on Akron, then they would be out of the gutter and could gain a reputation for having more Akron/Canton news than 3, 5 or, 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3444 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Meh...they should have gone back to ground zero and made a whole new logo. The color scheme screams Kent State. I don't know what to think of WUAB's latest logo, but it drives this once-proud station further into irrelevance. I'm betting on two years, "Ohio 19 News", and a shift in focus to the Akron area. Seriously, if WOIO pulled a WEAR and focused its efforts on Akron, then they would be out of the gutter and could gain a reputation for having more Akron/Canton news than 3, 5 or, 8. I doubt Akron will ever see one of the Cleveland stations re-focusing their efforts down there. All such efforts have failed including WAKR/WAKC's ABC afflilation and news department (which is now ion station WVPX) and WOAC's Canton operation which sold out years ago (now religious station WRLM). The death knell that spelled doom for WAKC was their separation from their radio counterparts in the 1980s, taking away their profitability and being in the Cleveland market seriously hurt their market share which meant they could not benefit from strong Akron/Canton numbers since they were being measured as part of the entire market. The other problem with WOIO is their signal in Akron itself. Until the digital transition, they could get a decent analog signal on channel 19. The digital transition moved them to channel 10, which is much lower power, and short-spaced to a station in London, Ontario. They had to put a digital translator in Akron to boost the signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProduceGuy 31 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 As for the logo, I'd bet it will include the CBS eye -- even though CBS won't be in the name. CBS has strict guidelines with its affiliates wanting new logos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Raycom Media is on an expanding newscast spree, just in time for the new TV season: [MEDIA=twitter]634442034074488832[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]634528946437115905[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]634536875143921664[/MEDIA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easttxtv 7 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I'd like to see DART try the "Transit TV" with original content plus content from NBC (with local news from KXAS and KXTX, and clips from NBC and Telemundo, among other NBCU properties). Well, the newest DART buses have monitors with still images (looking somewhat like a Powerpoint display/presentation) but I don't know if they're ready to function with streaming or archived video (whoever a potential partner might be). The light rail cars DART has do not have monitors; I'm not sure what it would take to equip them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Here's a better picture of Cleveland's CBS 19 News logo on their Facebook page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Here's a better picture of Cleveland's CBS 19 News logo on their Facebook page. It's not even in use yet in their newscasts and already that logo looks horrendously dated. Did I step back in time and it's now 1995 all of a sudden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ns8401 846 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 It's not even in use yet in their newscasts and already that logo looks horrendously dated. Did I step back in time and it's now 1995 all of a sudden? Don't you think it kinda fits CBS though... Nothing terribly modern about what they put out anyways... That's not a bad thing either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4164 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Here's a better picture of Cleveland's CBS 19 News logo on their Facebook page. Couldn't they at least have tried to make it look a little bit more like the logos for the legacy Ellis stations? (WMC, WECT, KFVS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrtraveler01 737 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 WOIO has finally switched to the new graphics/branding. They're not using CBS Local either which is very surprising. Here is the stream. http://www.19actionnews.com/category/291914/19-action-news-live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToriElectra 291 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Those dots on the bottom of the logo remind me of the logo for that old Paramount/CBS investigative series Hard Copy- it had a similar thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhratbrat 423 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Open for the new Cleveland 19. They are using This is the Place which is surprising to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidwestTV 1173 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I think the logo might look better if the 19 was in a different font. I like the L3s and how they animate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 There is such a major mismatch between the awesome graphics and that logo. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1295 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 What about using This is the Place? Granted it might get confusing in the Youngstown DMA where WOIO is still carried because of WFMJ using TITP. However, WKBN uses Enforcer (albeit different cuts from WOIO) and they're BOTH carried in the city. CALLED IT!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3444 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 They should have kept CBS Local. Watching the livestream replay thus far makes this look like one of their smaller market efforts, even though it's an improvement over their last look. I was hoping it would be on the level of WBTV, but it's not even close.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1366 Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 Found an alternate 19 logo for App Phone and Windows 10. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2878 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 It looks a little better here, for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
channel2 869 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Still looks like something TVbD would have done in 1996 to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3444 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 It's not even in use yet in their newscasts and already that logo looks horrendously dated. Did I step back in time and it's now 1995 all of a sudden? Here's the 1995 version of "19 News" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3444 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Earlier, my thoughts about WOIO's new color scheme were that the colors were similar to Kent State. But WOIO may have made an even bigger fail with their color scheme... ESPECIALLY since the old colors (red and white) were similar to the Scarlet and Grey of Ohio State.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daybreak 269 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Raycom Media is on an expanding newscast spree, just in time for the new TV season: [MEDIA=twitter]634442034074488832[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]634528946437115905[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=twitter]634536875143921664[/MEDIA] Well it looks like WPDE is finally launching a 5 p.m. newscast after more than 20 years of canceling it. It's premiering on September 14. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewsMaster 226 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Earlier, my thoughts about WOIO's new color scheme were that the colors were similar to Kent State. But WOIO may have made an even bigger fail with their color scheme... ESPECIALLY since the old colors (red and white) were similar to the Scarlet and Grey of Ohio State.... Yeah, those colors might be an issue. Everyone in NEO is probably irate about it. Lol. Interesting change of music to TITP. I still don't know who the VO guy is (I think I said earlier that it was John Beach, but after listening to more clips it doesn't sound like him). Sounds like the guy that does promos and teases on TNT for shows such as Rizzoli and Isles, and Major Crimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 1844 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Well it looks like WPDE is finally launching a 5 p.m. newscast after more than 20 years of canceling it. It's premiering on September 14. Where did you hear that from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4164 Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Earlier, my thoughts about WOIO's new color scheme were that the colors were similar to Kent State. But WOIO may have made an even bigger fail with their color scheme... ESPECIALLY since the old colors (red and white) were similar to the Scarlet and Grey of Ohio State.... That was worth the laugh. If anything, WOIO's new logo should have been in a blue and silver color scheme instead of blue and gold. I think 'dated...' because WJW's short-lived "Fox 8 Is NEWS" logo (for less than three weeks in September 1996... no proof of it exists on YouTube anywhere) had the same exact color scheme. The (SC)UofM and the Golden State Warriors are the LAST things that came to my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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